NEW YORK - The tech game has now been laid out by Apple, at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco today. Steve Jobs of Apple announced Icloud and said the program will be 100% free. Jobs who is on medical leave returned to work for the day to discuss the new initiative at the conference. ICloud will add all your files to all your apple devices at the same time. Jobs said "If you get a new Phone, just type in your Apple ID and password, and everything will be downloaded to the new phone." The full apple I cloud will not be available until the fall. Showing off this feature Apple Vice President Eddy Cue took a picture on his iPhone, which then opened in seconds on the iPad and Macbook.
The company also announced I-tunes match which is music put onto your computer from CD's or other downloads. The service for $24.99 will add all of these songs to I-tunes. If the music does not match, it will not be added and it will not be possible to listen to over the cloud.
The company is essentially taking a monopoly in the music market. It is well known that the music industry hopes that users will store all their music in the cloud. It will be even better for them if it is stored by powerful companies like Apple. Consumers have erased 50 years of industry power by sharing files through computers. Apple hopes to take this all back. Once the cloud is being used to store all your files, the industry will have won but will the consumer be reeling?
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back up your purchases... Use ICloud ..
ReplyDeletecurrently its to complicated plugging in and moving music ...great beginning but i want all my downloads in one place on the go when i want it..!! hence ICloud
was the telephone, TV,radio electricity, and 8Track a conspiracy ..
Common Man!!!!
I think you mean come on man.
ReplyDeleteAnyways this isn't a conspiracy. It is in Apples interest to have people no longer store files on their computer. This eliminates sharing between 2 computers.
Hence a very profitable switch for companies.
I cannot wait for iCloud - what a capital improvement and enables non-Apple people to use iTunes anywhere!
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